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AJ Henderson

18:52

well that was a fast upvote

I had a +1 upvote on my post before the screen had even refreshed after I hit submit

Unapiedra

okay, I can remove that if you want ;)

I had just upvoted the other answer when it showed me that a new answer was available. I clicked on it and I am a somewhat fast reader

AJ Henderson

nice

thanks, yeah, I just thought it was very interesting timing

ohh, down to under 70 rep to go before mod tools :)

Esa Paulasto

What do you guys think of the strong orange glow around the bonfire?

Is it some form or lens flare or has it another name?

AJ Henderson

I'd guess it is called smoke

on the water

Esa Paulasto

Could not get it down without making the boats disappear too.

AJ Henderson

19:02

and fire in the sky

Esa Paulasto

that's a song? :)

AJ Henderson

yeah

Esa Paulasto

sounds familiar but I can't recall it now

anyway, I don't much like it, but can't get it away either

Unapiedra

I think these might be particles (smoke) being illuminated by the fire

maybe it is a lens artifact

I think it is fine

AJ Henderson

yeah, it might be an artifact, but it's probably just collecting light that is being reflected or refracted by particulate in the air

it looks ine

fine even

I actually like the way it looks

Esa Paulasto

19:04

When I took the shot (about 15 of them) I noticed it already in viewfinder and the more off-center I placed the fire the more strong it got.

AJ Henderson

it kind of builds around the fire

Esa Paulasto

so I guess it is coming from the lens, not from the fire itself

Unapiedra

hmm, only suggestion then is to throw the lens away ;)

Esa Paulasto

okay, then another thing about this photo... do you notice anything odd on the left side of the larger sailboat?

vertically thru the whole image

sorry sorry, RIGHT side of the boat!!

AJ Henderson

I'll take more of a look later, but have to run atm

Esa Paulasto

19:07

@AJHenderson I'll reveal what it is soon ;)

Unapiedra

no, I don't see anything

Esa Paulasto

vertical thing going across the image right next to the larger sailboat

Unapiedra

a bit of reflections missing

Esa Paulasto

well.. I cut something like 250-300 pixels worth away from there

@Unapiedra aha, you got it :)

Unapiedra

really?

it looks natural because there are no lights

Esa Paulasto

19:09

there was nothing there, and it only worked to take the boat far away from the bonfire

so I just cut off a stripe of 300 pixels wide

The edges then showed some minor tone difference, leaving a straight easily distinguishable line there

used clone brush to clean it away, since I don't have these fancy content aware brushes

manual work, that is ;)

Unapiedra

well, looks perfectly fine to me

Esa Paulasto

thanks :)

I would not have even come to think about it, but some time ago I had seen a question/answer in PhotoSE that talked about this kind of job

in the sample pic there was a man - lots of grass - lighthouse.

and they cut a big chunk of the empty space away from between the man and the lighthouse

A: What do you call the technique for removing uninteresting parts of photo by combining two images?

What you are thinking of is seam carving. The example you are thinking of comes from the Wikipedia article of the same name. Photoshop implements this and calls it "Content-aware scaling" and the GIMP calls it "Liquid Rescale".

oh, I could have used "liquid rescale" :P

I just remembered the idea of doing a thing like this, but I did not bother to search for the exact Question in PhotoSE to check for the tools to do it. And so I did it manually.

And, bytheway, it was not a lighthouse but a sort of castle in that photo :)

Esa Paulasto

19:29

Unapiedra

interesting

in comparison I find the 'shopped version to be a bit cramped with boats

Esa Paulasto

Unapiedra

but don't listen to me, I wouldn't have figured this out on my own

Esa Paulasto

and I recheck the cut, it was over 400 pixels wide slice

you also see lens flare that got cut away too

green flare on the water

Unapiedra

yes, that I can see

Michael Nielsen

19:46

anyone made aioli/mayonnaise at home?

it keeps being too runny. Im following all teh tips

Esa Paulasto

perhaps too warm? I've noticed how temperature affects the strangest things that you did not expect to get affected. But I have not done mayo at home.

off to bed now, early wake-up tomorrow (4:50 a.m.)

Unapiedra

watch the video from Blumenthal about mayo

haven't done so myself and am not interested but he has many tipps and what to look out for